Environmental Complexity: Additional Human Visual Contact Reduced Meat Chickens’ Fear of Humans and Physical Items Altered Pecking Behavior

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Environmental complexity can improve chicken welfare. However, the outcome of such environmental changes will depend on the resources provided. We provided either various physical items that posed no biosecurity risk and were inexpensive (such as balls, chains, a perch and rope) to a...

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Autores principales: Taylor, Peta S., Hemsworth, Paul H., Rault, Jean-Loup
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8833824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35158634
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani12030310

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8833824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35158634
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani12030310

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